Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
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1. Atoms obtain octet configuration when linked
with other atoms. This is said by _________ 9. Which of the following doesn’t follow octet
a) Lewis rule?
b) Kossel a) CH4
c) Langmuir b) CCl4
d) Sidgwick c) HCl
d) NO2
2. Find out the correct Lewis symbol for the
atom carbon among the following options. 10. Calculate the formal charge of the middle
a) .C: atom in the ozone molecule.
b) :C.
c) :C:
d) .C.
3. What’s the group valance of atoms in the
halogen family?
a) 2 a) 1
b) 1 b) -1
c) 9 c) 0
d) 7 d) -2
4. Highly electropositive Alkali metals are 11. A chemical bond formation that involves the
separated from highly electronegative halogens complete transfer of electrons between atoms
by _________ is _______
a) noble gases a) ionic bond
b) oxygen family b) covalent bond
c) f-block elements c) metallic bond
d) 7th period d) partial covalent bond
5. Sharing or transfer of electrons from one 12. Formation of a compound through ionic
atom to the other to attain stable octet bond ______ the ionization energy of the metal
configuration follows _______ ion.
a) Duet rule a) does not depends on
b) Triplet rule b) depend on
c) Octet rule c) is independent regarding
d) Septet rule d) may or may not depend on
6. In the covalent bond, atoms share electrons 13. The enthalpy change that occurs when an
to achieve octet configuration. atom in the ground state gains an electron, is
a) True electron gain enthalpy.
b) False a) True
b) False
7. Which of the following molecule doesn’t
involve covalent bond? 14. Electron gain enthalpy may be ________
a) H2O a) exothermic
b) CCl4 b) endothermic
c) NaCl c) both exothermic and endothermic
d) O2 d) always zero
8. Calculate the formal charge of C in CH4. 15. Ionic bonds easily form when electron when
a) 4 ionization energy of the metallic atom is _____
b) 1 comparatively.
c) -4 a) negative
b) constant
c) more
d) less a) 104.5°
b) 104°
16. What is the energy that is released upon c) 105.4°
the formation of an ionic compound known as? d) 105°
a) Ionization energy
b) Lattice energy 25. Strength of the bond between the two
c) Electron gain enthalpy atoms can be known from bond dissociation
d) Electropositivity enthalpy.
a) True
17. What’s the amount of lattice energy of b) False
NaCl?
a) 788 KJ mol-1 26. The bond enthalpy of H2O and OH are 502
b) 688 KJ mol-1 KJ mol-1 and 427 KKJ mol-1. Then what is the
c) 588 KJ mol-1 average bond enthalpy?
d) 488 KJ mol-1 a) 502 KJ mol-1
b) 464.5 KJ mol-1
18. Which of the following molecule’s formation c) 427 KJ mol-1
doesn’t include ionic bond? d) 75 KJ mol-1
a) LiCl
b) MgO 27. What is the bond order of CO?
c) SnCl4 a) 3
d) H2O b) 2
c) 1
19. Ionization energy is always endothermic in d) 4
nature.
a) False 28. All the __________ species(molecules and
b) True ions) have the same bond order.
a) isotopic
20. Ionic bond formation depends on the b) isoelectronic
arrangement of __________ c) isobaric
a) molecule d) isoneutronic
b) atom
c) lattice 29. Resonance does stabilize the molecule.
d) kernal a) False
b) True
21. Which of the following cannot be used to
measure bond lengths?
a) Spectroscopy 30. Which of the following molecules may have
b) X-ray diffraction a dipole movement?
c) Electron diffraction a) N2
d) Young’s Double-slit method b) CH4
c) BeF2
22. The covalent radius in a chlorine molecule d) H2O
and van der Waal’s radius between chlorine
molecules respectively can be ________ &
_________ 31. Which of the following is correct regarding
a) 99pm, 198pm repulsive interaction?
b) 198pm, 99pm a) Lone pair-Lone pair is greater than Lone
c) 198pm, 198pm pair-Bond pair is greater than Bond pair-Bond
d) 99pm, 99m pair
b) Lone pair-Lone pair is less than Lone pair-
23. What are the units of measuring the bond Bond pair is less than Bond pair-Bond pair
angle? c) Lone pair-Bond pair is greater than Lone
a) meters pair-Lone pair is greater than Bond pair-Bond
b) kilograms pair
c) degree d) Lone pair-Lone pair is greater than Lone
d) mole pair-Bond pair is less than Bond pair-Bond pair
24. The bond angle between the hydrogen 32. The shape of the molecule depends on the
atoms is _________ _______
a) adjacent atom a) 108°
b) valence electrons b) 180°
c) surroundings c) 74.5°
d) atmosphere d) 90°
33. The shape a molecule occupies allows to 41. The bond enthalpy of ___________
minimize repulsions among them and maximize molecule is 435.8 kJ mol-1.
the space between them. a) Hydrogen
a) True b) Oxygen
b) False c) Nitrogen
d) Helium
34. What is the shape of the molecule NH3?
a) Square pyramidal 42. The strength of covalent ___________
b) V-shape extent of overlapping of orbitals.
c) Triagonal pyramidal a) may be or may not be related
d) Tetrahedral b) is independent on
c) is dependent on
35. How many orbitals are included in sp3d d) is not related to
hybridization?
a) 5 43. What is the electronic configuration of
b) 4 carbon in it’s excited state?
c) 3 a) 1s22s22p4
d) 6 b) 1s22s22p3
c) 1s22s22p5
36. A double bond is made up of __________ d) 1s22s12p4
a) Two sigma bonds
b) Two pi bonds 44. Which type of bond is present between
c) One sigma and one pi bond hydrogens in hydrogen molecule?
d) Two sigmas and one pi bond a) Sigma bond
b) Pi bond
37. Which of the following molecules geometry c) Ionic bond
is true? d) Metallic bond
a) BrF5 – Triagonal pyramidal
b) ClF3 – T-shape 45. The pi-bond involves __________
c) PCl5 – See-saw a) axial overlapping
d) SF4 – Triagonal bipyramidal b) side-wise overlapping
c) end to end type of overlapping
38. What is the shape of water? d) head-on overlapping
a) Triagonal
b) Triagonal bipyramidal 46. A pi bond is stronger than a sigma bond.
c) Bent a) True
d) Square planar b) False
39. What is the name of the below-given 47. A __________ overlap doesn’t result in the
shape? formation of a bond.
a) positive
b) negative
c) zero
d) rational
48. A positive overlap is same as ________
a) out-phase overlap
b) negative overlap
a) Triagonal planar c) zero overlap
b) Tetrahedral d) in-phase overlap
c) Square planar
d) Octahedral 49. Valence bond theory explains the
overlapping of atomic orbitals.
40. The angle between two bonds in a linear a) True
molecule is _______
b) False d) d-orbital and p-orbital
50. Which of the following is not a homonuclear 58. What is the geometry of PCl5 molecule?
diatomic molecule? a) Square pyramidal
a) H2 b) V-shape
b) N2 c) Trigonal bipyramidal
c) O2 d) Tetrahedral
d) HCl
59. The orbitals formed after hybridization have
equal energy.
51. Who introduced the concept of a) True
hybridization? b) False
a) Pauling
b) London 60. Which of the following statement is true
c) Sidgwick regarding hybrid orbitals?
d) Alexander a) The amount of orbitals formed after the
hybridization is not equal to the number of
52. The phenomenon of forming completely orbitals before hybridization
new atomic orbitals by intermixing them is b) The hybrid orbitals don’t have equal energy
known as ___________ c) They can form more stable bonds than the
a) Allocation pure orbitals
b) Hybridization d) Hybridization doesn’t indicate geometry
c) Chemical bond formation
d) Electron configuration
61. Combination of two atomic orbitals results
53. The orbitals that are resulted from sp in the formation of two molecular orbitals
hybridization have _______% s-character and namely _________
________% p-character. a) one bonding and one non-bonding orbital
a) 25, 75 b) two bonding orbitals
b) 75, 25 c) two non-bonding orbitals
c) 20, 80 d) two bonding and non-bonding orbitals
d) 50, 50
62. Stability increases, as the energy
54. What type of hybridization does a ___________
BCl3 molecule undergo? a) increases
a) sp b) doesn’t change
b) sp2 c) decreases
c) sp3 d) increases and then decreases
d) sp3d
63. ψMO = ψA + ψB.
55. What is the bond angle of H-C-H in a) True
methane molecule? b) False
a) 104.5°
b) 109.5° 64. Which of the following is a condition for the
c) 108° combination of atomic orbitals?
d) 120° a) Combining atomic orbitals need not have
equal energy
56. What do you think is the number of sigma b) Combining atomic orbitals must have
bonds in an ethene molecule? symmetry as per molecular axis
a) 6 c) Combining atomic orbitals must overlap to a
b) 7 minimum extent
c) 4 d) For combining atomic orbitals, X-axis should
d) 5 be taken as a molecular axis
57. Mention the types of orbitals that undergo 65. Sigma molecular orbitals are not
hybridization in order to get octahedral symmetrical around the bonding axis.
geometry? a) True
a) s-orbital only b) False
b) s-orbital and p-orbital
c) s-orbital, p-orbital, and d-orbital
66. Which of the bonding orbital has greater c) He2
energy comparatively? d) N2
a) Both Bonding molecular orbital and Anti-
bonding molecular orbital have the same 74. The number of electrons in bonding orbital
energy and anti-bonding orbital of Lithium molecule are
b) The energy of Bonding molecular orbital and ______ and _______ respectively.
Anti-bonding molecular orbital depends on the a) 4, 4
situation b) 2, 2
c) Bonding molecular orbital c) 2, 4
d) Anti-bonding molecular orbital d) 4, 2
67. Take NA as the number of Anti-bonding 75. What is the electronic configuration of the
molecular orbitals and NB as the number of carbon atom?
Bonding molecular orbitals. The molecule is a) 1s22s22p2
stable when NA ____________ NB. b) σ1s2σ*1s2σ2s2σ*2s2π2px2π2py2
a) is greater than c) 1s22s22p1
b) is equal to d) σ1s2σ*1s σ2s2π2px2π2py2
c) is less than
d) is greater than or equal to 76. O2 is paramagnetic in nature.
a) True
68. What’s the bond order of Oxygen? b) False
a) 3
b) 2 77. The electronic configurations of molecules
c) 1 change when the number of electrons is
d) 0 ________
a) 10
69. What do you think is the relationship b) 20
between bond order and bond length? c) 17
a) Directly proportional d) 14
b) Indirectly proportional
c) No relation 78. Which of the following is true regarding
d) Cannot predict nitrogen molecule.
a) Diamagnetic
70. Which of the following molecule is not true b) Paramagnetic
about paramagnetic molecules? c) Bond order is 2
a) Attracted by the magnetic field d) Total number of electrons in the molecule is
b) A molecular orbital is singly occupied 13
c) An example is oxygen molecule
d) Repelled by the magnetic field 79. H2, N2, O2 and Li2 are ______________
a) heteronuclear diatomic molecules
b) heteronuclear triatomic molecules
c) homonuclear diatomic molecules
71. What is the electronic configuration of d) homonuclear triatomic molecules
hydrogen molecule?
a) σ1s2 80. What is the total number of electrons in the
b) σ1s1 Chlorine molecule?
c) σ1s a) 17
d) σ*1s b) 34
c) 18
72. What is the condition, for a molecule do not d) 16
exist?
a) NA = NB OR NA > NB
b) NA > NB only 81. Nitrogen, fluorine and oxygen are
c) NA < NB ___________ in nature.
d) NA >/< NB a) electronegative
b) electropositive
73. Which of the following molecule doesn’t c) metallic
exist? d) semi-metallic
a) O2
b) H2
82. Which bond acts like a bridge two
molecules formed by a covalent bond?
a) Covalent bond
b) Ionic bond
c) Hydrogen bond
d) Metallic bond
83. A molecule named o-nitrophenol consists of
______________hydrogen bond/s.
a) intermolecular
b) intramolecular
c) both intermolecular and intramolecular
d) neither intermolecular nor intramolecular
84. In a hydrogen bond, hydrogen has a
positive charge.
a) True
b) False
85. Water molecules contain _____________
hydrogen bond/s.
a) intermolecular
b) intramolecular
c) both intermolecular and intramolecular
d) neither intermolecular nor intramolecular
86. The magnitude of the H-bonding depends
on the ___________ of the compound.
a) surroundings
b) system
c) atmosphere
d) physical state
87. Which of the following molecule can form a
hydrogen bond with hydrogen?
a) Sodium
b) Oxygen
c) Aluminum
d) Rubidium
88. Which of the following molecules doesn’t
involve hydrogen bond formation?
a) H2O
b) O-nitrophenol
c) NaCl
d) HF
89. In a hydrogen bond, the electron pair that is
shared moves away from hydrogen.
a) True
b) False
90. Alcohol and HF molecule contains
__________ & _____________ hydrogen
bonds.
a) intramolecular, intermolecular
b) intermolecular, intermolecular
c) intermolecular, intramolecular
d) intramolecular, intramolecular
